Liz Gill looks at the highly successful Danish film industry and wonders: could we learn a thing or two?
Imagine, if you will, that in one year in Ireland, 27 Irish feature films (meaning Irish written, directed, shot, set and edited) with an average budget of 2.6 million euros, are released theatrically on 51 prints each, taking an average of 1.2 million euros at the box office and 26% of the national market share…
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8 features, 8 directors, 8 rules. Gavin Burke investigates the octically-obsessed Advance Party II.
With the Catalyst Project asking its filmmakers to deliver a film on €250,000, Advance Party II’s budget of €1.5 million will seem like a luxury. Finding its inspiration from the competitive and creative community of the dogme movement, Advance Party I (API) brought together a new group of filmmakers and created a new and unique set of rules to govern the conception and production of their new films…
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